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aircraft to a distance from which they could strike the Empire of Japan's home island. A veritable gold mine for historians, the footage is irreplaceable in every sense of the word and historically valuable in every sense of the phrase, hence the nomination
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A Castle Films Newsreel discussing the Doolittle Raid, including interviews and footage from the task force ships involved in the air raid - notably, the film captures the first ever bomber raid launched from carrier ships, as
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Really great find. High EV. It is great to see video on the FP section but perhaps we may want to consider a FV section, albeit the site does not have a lot of video something to think about.
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249:, if someone wants to convert the mpg to ogv. 63:– Newsreel footage covering the Doolittle Raid 8: 231:Promoted File:Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo.ogv 18:Knowledge (XXG):Featured picture candidates 284:Featured picture nominations/January 2015 7: 180:, an estimated 500,000 were killed.) 88:Articles in which this image appears 274:Ended featured picture nominations 24: 198:- Useful bit of documentation. — 1: 279:Featured picture nominations 238:12:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC) 225:19:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC) 208:09:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC) 191:14:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC) 167:03:30, 1 February 2015 (UTC) 146:12:41, 30 January 2015 (UTC) 125:10:37, 30 January 2015 (UTC) 107:Castle Films, US Government 300: 96:FP category for this image 259:08:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC) 80:was used to ferry the 16 28:Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo 64: 39:Voting period ends on 59: 113:Support as nominator 65: 181: 141:whisper in my ear 57: 47: 291: 175: 165: 157: 143: 58: 38: 36: 299: 298: 294: 293: 292: 290: 289: 288: 264: 263: 244:Belated comment 159: 155: 139: 50: 37: 34: 31: 22: 21: 20: 12: 11: 5: 297: 295: 287: 286: 281: 276: 266: 265: 262: 261: 228: 227: 210: 193: 169: 151:Strong Support 148: 127: 109: 108: 105: 102: 97: 94: 92:Doolittle Raid 89: 86: 69: 45:10:37:07 (UTC) 33: 30: 25: 23: 15: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 296: 285: 282: 280: 277: 275: 272: 271: 269: 260: 256: 252: 248: 245: 242: 241: 240: 239: 236: 232: 226: 222: 218: 215:- Very nice.- 214: 211: 209: 205: 201: 197: 194: 192: 188: 184: 179: 173: 170: 168: 164: 163: 158: 152: 149: 147: 144: 142: 137: 136: 131: 128: 126: 122: 118: 114: 111: 110: 106: 103: 101: 98: 95: 93: 90: 87: 83: 82:B-25 Mitchell 79: 77: 70: 67: 66: 62: 48: 46: 42: 29: 26: 19: 243: 230: 229: 212: 195: 177: 171: 160: 150: 140: 134: 132:Great find. 129: 112: 75: 60: 44: 40: 32: 27: 200:Crisco 1492 41:9 Feb 2015 268:Categories 117:TomStar81 251:FunkMonk 235:Armbrust 61:Original 213:Support 196:Support 172:Support 162:WPPilot 130:Support 104:Creator 78:(CV-8) 76:Hornet 68:Reason 217:Jobas 156:talk→ 85:here. 16:< 255:talk 221:talk 204:talk 187:talk 178:each 121:Talk 74:USS 183:Sca 135:APK 43:at 270:: 257:) 233:-- 223:) 206:) 189:) 123:) 115:– 253:( 219:( 202:( 185:( 119:(

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Knowledge (XXG):Featured picture candidates
Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
USS Hornet (CV-8)
B-25 Mitchell
Doolittle Raid
Knowledge (XXG):Featured pictures/History/World War II
TomStar81
Talk
10:37, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
APK
whisper in my ear
12:41, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
talk→
WPPilot
03:30, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Sca
talk
14:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492
talk
09:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Jobas
talk
19:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Armbrust
12:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

FunkMonk
talk
08:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

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